2009/3/31 Joseph Smith joe@settoplinux.org:
Hello, Looks like an i830 chipset laptop. I would love to see coreboot running on an i830 chipset laptop. I wrote the i830 code (with lots of help from everyone here:-) ) and would be glad to help in any way that I can. Looks like the first thing is to get your SMSC LPC47N252 SuperIO working. Most of the SMSC LPC47* are closely related from a programming stand point. I think everything else is supported by coreboot. The only concerns I have is with the graphics (LCD) and battery charging. See: http://www.coreboot.org/Laptop If your willing to give it a go, I woud be glad to support you any way I can. If you want some base code to start with you can use the RCA RM4100 (i830 based set-top-box). Hope that helps.
Thanks for your reply, Joseph. Sounds quite encouraging. Could you suggest, what I can start with? Qemu maybe? Do you think there would be a need for a lot of programming? I hope I would be able to handle this. Any I will surely need quite some help... It's been quite a while since I last wrote any significant portion of code.
What did you mean I should look for at http://www.coreboot.org/Laptop? I didn't notice anything much related to my hardware there. Probably I do not yet associate the therms with each other too well.